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Mozilla Thunderbird is one of the best FOSS mail clients out there and I prefer it over the other mail clients. In Slackware 14 we already have three mail clients out of the box, which are Mail, KMail and Seamonkey Mail respectively. But Thunderbird is not preinstalled with the distro so I had to install that first.

Luckily Slackware 14 is coming with all the necessary libraries so don’t have to worry about that.

Download the correct file.
This is very important since in a 64 bit system a 32 bit software will not work without some necessary libraries. So if yours is a 32 bit system download the 32 bit version of Thunderbird else get the 64 bit version.
To get the 64 bit version go here.
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login as root.

Change directory to /opt.
I chose this directory as this installation is a custom one.

Copy to tar ball to /opt.

Extract the file.

Create an entry in /usr/bin

Create shortcuts to launch Thunderbird (in menu + desktop). Right click on the KDE menu and select the option ‘Edit Application’. Using that utility we can add or edit the application details. To create a desktop shortcut just drag and drop the Menu entry to the desktop (after unlocking the widgets).
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To update Thunderbird we will have to launch it as administrator: #thunderbird
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